3-D Graphic Organizers: 20 Easy-to-Make Learning Tools That Reinforce Key Concepts Paperback – September 1, 2009

The book really features the twenty innovative and easy-to-make learning tools that reinforce key concepts learned in class.It also includes a CD with 3-D graphic organizers and you can customize all material. In my opinion, this is one of the most interesting points, because it helps us, teachers, saving time when preparing lesson plans.The 3-D Graphic Organizers help teachers and students, because they are not too complicated (most of them need only scissors and tape to construct and a pen or pencil to complete). Simple and few additional commom items are required as: double-sided tape, stapler, string, colored markers, brads, hole punch, straightedge, photocopy of the templates).If you want to costumize and save files on the CD, you will need to use Adobe Reader, version 7.0 or higher. All the projects in this book are divided across the content areas - reading and language arts, social studies, math, and science. At page 9, you will find an "assessment rubric" as well.Every sample project page brings these features:- objectives;- time required;- materials;- introduction;- what-to-do;- extend- ways to use across the curriculum and- how-to-construct.Motivation not only for students but for teachers too!Fabulous! I recommend this book for those teachers who want to help their students build important and independent skills.Five Stars!I purchased this item on October 2, 2011.The item arrived on November 25, 2011.P. S.: Please, feel free to correct any (grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc) mistakes. I want to improve my English. I also want to hear from you if this review was helpful or not. Thank you very much for your attention!

This book is FULL of great ideas for making our Language Arts and Social Studies come to life. We have done two activities from this book already. Highly recommend!

You can find a book and go through it and find maybe one or two ideas you can use but not here. There are multiple GO one can use. I have at least 5 other books and multiple online sources for graphic organizers but this is the best. The GO are foldable and requires a bit of cutting which kids love to do. They are quick to put together and an effective learning tool. Thank you for this book. Plus this book comes with a CD that allows you to customize the GOs. God bless America! Worth every penny and then some.

This is a nice addition to the home school experience. It makes plain old text-book and writing more interesting. Using concepts from one of my child's science lessons, and using one of the templates from the 3-D book gave us tools to create a game and she aced the lesson. There's a whole bunch of different templates to use, and not just for academia. Be as creative as you want!

This book has some really neat ideas for foldables. I love that it comes with a CD to easily print the pages and there are tons of ideas and uses for the pages in the book. They are easy to use and my students love them!

These are for elementary not middle or high school. I have 8th graders and if I asked them to make a mobile I think they would throw things at me. I am going to use a couple of them for a "read all the directions" assignment because middle school'ers have a few problems with reading directions and perhaps an enrichment activity for the over achievers.

Cute ideas, but designed more for elementary level content - or at least for social sciences, such as history. Not very applicable to Chemistry, but then, there's not much chemistry that can just be memorized or summarized.

I was real excited for this book to come, and there are definitely some good teaching ideas. Unfortunately, many of the ideas seem to me like a waste of time for students to put energy into. There are a few authentic ideas which I have used, but there are also many projects that are so art driven that the actual learning and writing gets watered down.

My year 7s love the person pop up when I give them someone to research. I'm sure the rest of lower school will love it too.

I really love 3D graphic organizers! They motivate students of all ages!